Ned Oliver at the Times-Dispatch has this interesting story about the Richmond Police Department's plan to ban weapons at Saturday's white supremacy rally at the Lee statue. "Weapons" may or may not include guns, of course, due to our ridiculously lax state gun laws. So while people may be forced to leave their nunchakus at home, they can totally bring all of their AK-47s. Cool. We should learn more at today's 3:30 PM press conference and at tonight's community discussion at First Baptist (2709 Monument Avenue, 6:00 PM). Also of note: Police have added the area around the Coliseum to their no parking zones for the weekend, which, I guess, means there's something planned for that area of town as well?

This morning's longread

The directives the world gives us to eat less and be smaller and weaker are so loud and ubiquitous and unrelenting, it is impossible to live in society as a woman and not second-guess the very food you put in your mouth or each individual inch of your exterior. So many of us, at one point or another, have been slowly dying by our own hands, chipping away at our livelihoods in search of some fictional perfection, often because we feel it’s the only measure of control we can exert in our worlds: to not eat and feel that virtuous, light, lightheaded hollowness; to eat until we’re sick; to exercise until we’re stiff and nauseous and sprained and stress-fractured. When no one listens to us, when they blame our problems on our gender, we turn on ourselves. It makes no sense and perfect sense. They blame us so we blame us too, and we try to fix and punish and cajole and manipulate ourselves through one of our most basic needs.